What I can’t understand is why he was a member, apparently in good standing, of the Reformation Lutheran Church.
There are liberal churches/segments of all religious faiths. As much as it makes my blood boil.
It’s an apostate church.
The ALPB's own Paul Sauer published this a while back as part of a longer article about why he is Lutheran. The relvant paragrpah is below.
Being in the midst of the day-to-day battle over abortion led to a crisis of faith that went far deeper than the parlor games of Valparaiso. For the first time in my life the “authority question” came up. It happened on a warm spring day in Kansas. CALL had organized a regional weekend of activism which drew hundreds of college students to the campus of Wichita State. In addition to picketing abortion clinics, hosting speakers, and doing literature distribution on campus, some members of CALL wanted to picket a Lutheran church where the notorious late-term abortionist George Tiller was a member. In a compromise, I volunteered to meet with the pastor to express my concern and get his side of the story. The moral ambiguity espoused by the pastor remains to this day one of the most disturbing, indelible images of my time with CALL. I learned that, not only was George Tiller a member, but he even occasionally assisted with communion. “How could I,” the pastor asked, “question the faith of this man who thought that he was helping women?” Out of this conversation, I discovered what I saw as the great weakness of Lutheranism—where is the authority? If anyone can interpret Scripture, does that mean he can also come to any conclusion he wants?
The final sentence deserves repeating and much pondering:
If anyone can interpret Scripture, does that mean he can also come to any conclusion he wants?